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Mark A. Finlayson |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS |
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Computational models of human intelligence, application of artificial intelligence to the social sciences. |
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EDUCATION |
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2002-Present |
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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
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Doctoral
candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dissertation
Advisor: Patrick H. Winston , Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science |
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1999-2001 |
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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
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M.S.
in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dissertation
Advisor: Henry I. Smith, Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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1995-1998 |
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University
of Michigan |
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B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, Magna cum Laude
Class Honors, 1998
Honor Roll in Fall 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 1998, and Fall 1998
Participant in LLNL Undergraduate Summer Institute in Applied Science, Summer 1998
NSF Research Internship at the University of Michigan Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Summer 1997
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PUBLICATIONS, REFEREED |
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2005 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features and Informational-level Constraint on Analogical Retrieval, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 666-671. | Download PDF (329 kb) | Download Poster PDF (264 kb) |
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2000 |
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Hastings, J.T., Zhang, F., Finlayson, M.A., Goodberlet, J.G., & Smith, H.I. Two-dimensional spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography via sparse sampling. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 18 (6): 3268-3271.| Download PDF (294 kb) |
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PUBLICATIONS, NON-REFEREED |
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2006 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H.
Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features: The Goldilocks Hypothesis. MIT CSAIL Technical Report 2006-071 (on the web at
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34635). | Download PDF (840 kb) |
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2001 |
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Finlayson, M.A. Development of a Scintillating Reference Grid for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography, Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. | Download PDF (497 kb) |
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POSTERS
& ABSTRACTS |
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2007 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. The Rapid Story Annotation Workbench, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007 (on the web here). | Download PDF (232 kb) |
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2007 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Reasoning by Imagining: The Neo-Bridge System, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007 (on the web here). | Download PDF (221 kb) |
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2006 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Proposal for a Computational Model of Story Understanding, presented at the MURI workshop on Computational Models for Belief Revision, Group Decision, and Cultural Shifts, 27-28 January 2006. | Download Poster PDF (320 kb) |
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2005 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features Improve Incremental Analogical Mapping, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 2477. | Download Abstract PDF (123 kb) | Download Poster PDF (160 kb) |
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2005 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Computational Principles of Human Analogical Reasoning, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2005 (on the web here). | Download PDF (73 kb) |
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2004 |
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Finlayson, M.A.
& Winston, P.H. A Model of Analogical Retrieval
using Intermediate Features, in Proceedings of the 26th Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Kenneth Forbus, Dedre Genter, and Terry Reiger, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 1557. | Download
Abstract PDF (72 kb) | Download
Poster PDF (362 kb) |
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2004 |
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Winston,
P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Computational Politics, in the MIT
CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2004, pp. 783-784. | Download
PDF (101 kb) |
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PRESENTATIONS |
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2007 |
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"The Difficulties and Uses of Text Annotation, Medical and Otherwise" (Invited Talk), at the Brigham & Women's Hospital Decision Systems Seminar, 7 February 2007. |
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2006 |
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"Analogy: What's Missing" (Invited Talk), at the DARPA BICA Retreat on the Computational Human Intelligence Project, 19 January 2006. | Download Slides PDF (114 kb) |
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2004 |
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"Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features," at the CSAIL Student Seminar, 10 May 2004. | Download Talk Abstract PDF (15 kb) | Download Slides PDF (727 kb) |
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RESEARCH
PROPOSALS |
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2006 |
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Finlayson, M.A. A Computational Model of Cultural Memory Effects, Revised Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. |
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2004 |
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Finlayson, M.A. Analogical Reasoning using Representational Constraint and Re-representational Feedback, Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. |
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2004 |
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Winston,
P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Explaining and Predicting
Culturally Conditioned Viewpoints with Analogical Reasoning Systems,
in response to NSF Solicitation HSD04, No. 04-537. |
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2003 |
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Winston,
P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Representationally Complete
Analogical Reasoning Systems and Steps Toward Their Application in
Political Science, in response to NSF Solicitation AICS03, No.
03-600. Funded, 3 years, $446,371, IIS-0413206 |
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ADVISEES |
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2006-2007 |
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Mark Seifter, Masters of Engineering Candidate, Thesis: Building Representations from Natural Language, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Application of Modern Natural Language Parsing Techniques to the Bridge Project
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2006-2007 |
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Harold Cooper, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Motion Representation in the Bridge Project |
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2006-2007 |
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Diana Moore, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Detecting Violations of Spelke Principles in Imagined Scenes |
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Spring 2005 |
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Emilie Kim, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Course VI Advanced Undergraduate Project: Grounded Models for Understanding Conflicts from Multiple Points of View | Download PDF (545 kb) |
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Spring 2004 |
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Yaron Binur, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: A GUI for Browsing Bridge Memory |
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Summer 2002 |
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Maithilee Kunda, Research Science Institute High-School Research Assistant, Research Project Title: Quenching of Organic Scintillators in Polymer Thin Films for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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Spring 2006 |
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Graduate Instructor, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Rahul Sarpeskar. |
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Fall 2004 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
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Spring 2004 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and John Wyatt. |
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Fall 2003 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
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Spring 2003 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and Seth Lloyd. |
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Fall 2002 |
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Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
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REVIEWING |
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2006-2007 |
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Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) |
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2007 |
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European Cognitive Science Conference (EuroCogSci) |
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2006 |
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International Conference of the Cognitive Science (in the Asia-Pacific region) (ICCS) |
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2007 |
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International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IJCITP) |
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OTHER EMPLOYMENT |
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2007 |
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Consultant, EventMonitor, Inc., Boston, MA. |
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2001-2002 |
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Senior Engineer, Nantero Inc., Woburn, MA. |
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Summer 1999 |
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Graduate Research Assistant, Submicrometer Technology Group. MIT Lincoln Laboratory, under Theodore Bloomstein, Ph.D. and Mordechai Rothschild, Ph.D. |
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Summer 1998 |
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Undergraduate Research Assistant, Nanostructures Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA. under Professor Henry I. Smith. |
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Summer 1997 |
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Undergraduate Research Assistant, High-field Science Group, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, under Associate Professor Donald Umstadter. |
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Summer 1996 |
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Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, under Professor Roy Clarke. |
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